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22 Nov 2012

Aww, so sorry that you lost your beloved pet. He probably was scared, and he sensed your feelings also. I don't think that he was in pain, just anxious, and now you don't have to worry about his pain anymore. AFter the meds go in, it calms them. You need to google "The Rainbow Bridge", a very beautiful poem.

I agree with msfino... We just had to have one of our 4 beloved dogs put to sleep 2 weeks age as of yesterday. He had a stroke and he was in a tremendous amount of pain so we took him to be put to sleep. It sounds like your dog was anxious. but I don't think that he was in any pain. I couldn't watch our Chipper when he was pit to sleep, but my fiance was with him, and he said that once he got the inital drugs to relax him... he was at peace and that once they gave him the drugs that took him, he closed his eyes and he relaxed, and he was no longer in pain. Like msfino said, google "The Rainbow Bridge", I did , and it was a great comfort to me after my Chipper passed. We had him creamated and I now have his ashes in a beautiful hand carved box and they made us a clay imprint of his paw. I have both displayed on a wooden bench that my 18 yr old son made and he is in my living room with us always. I am sooooo sorry for you loss. :((

thanks msfino!! I love "The Rainbow Bridge", it makes me feel so much better! I have 3 more dogs, Bear, who is Chipper's dad, (chipper is the one who we had put to sleep) , we have Tommy who is another one of our rescue "muts" lol, and then my pure bread Mini-Dachshund Muffin! I don't know what I will do if I ever lose them, especially Muffin she is my little shadow!! lol

Beings can be quite dead and not feel pain, but have physical reactions. I've heard of people that were shot in the head-dead-but they got up went out got the mail and then fell down. I saw one murder mystery that happened that way. You have these responses when you cut off a chicken's head, and with other animals. They are beyond pain-they are dead-but they move like your dog did. Coroners sometimes have a corpse sit up, but they are quite dead. I'm so sorry that you lost your dog, that you had to put him down. I'm especially sorry that you and your husband had this experience. I hope that you'll feel like going to a shelter and getting another pet. Take care---

She asked if her poor dog was in pain-obviously she was and is in pain over the experience. I'd be wanting to sue the vet if I saw that happen. I cannot imagine her husband having to grab the poor dog that was already suffering-possibly from cancer-kidney failure-painful arthritis-so bad that it couldn't hardly move about. Doctors, veterinarians, and scientist have worried if the person or animal does suffer pain during this type of nightmare for years and years. There isn't any pleasure in a normal doctor, veterinarian, police officer that observes this. Everyone is greatly upset. I explained the physical cause of this. People take their beloved pets to be put down peacefully and painlessly. While this was painless, it certainly wasn't peaceful. I had a pet goat that lived with us for almost 30 years. I was dearly attached to Charles. I have 2 hounds that I've had for 5 years-their breed is short-lived-maybe 9-10 years.

I hope that they live longer-much longer. You might not like the explanation of what happened-that's your problem- but she wanted to know if her poor dog suffered. How can I say it was an automatic-sympathetic reaction of the nervous system, unless I gave some examples? I sincerely hope that nobody on this site or anybody that I know has to ever see this.

Meyati is very right. I have had four dogs put down over the years. Two just slumped. One cried even though he was definitely gone without a heart beat. One just sat there and the Vet said he would collapse in a bit. It felt like forever but I am sure it was just seconds.

We all have our own way to grieve. Each can see death differently. I find the death of any living being sad. I don't freak and I don't blame. Just as we are all different and unique, so is the death of a being. Death can startle or be just like a movie. Knowing that movies are fiction and death is real, no one knows what will happen. Did the dog suffer. I think not. You see I died in an ICU and I felt zero pain as I faded out and came back. Even though the veins were blowing, I have had veins blow and it really doesn't hurt. More a surprise. For the dog it was scary to get stuck with a needle but not painful.

The wonderful pet is gone. The death was peaceful, just surprising to the observer. My prayers to the pet and the family it spent its life with. Karen

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I've had friends call me and ask me if I could take their 'dear' friend/baby into the vet. They'd call the vet and tell them that I'd come in. For some reason, most animals like me a lot. I've been called the cat, dog, goat, cow and horse whisper-even by vets and old ranchers. One of the saddest was one of the most vicious Rottweilers in Western NM. The wife didn't want anybody to touch it, Schootzi would bite- and did bite. Her husband noticed that when he answered the door- Schootzi was waggling his whole body. I'd scratch his ears. When Joanne came in Schootzi backed off and stared at me. They took cruises, etc. They had me go feed the dogs. Schootzi and I took walks-played fetch. Schootzi was filled with cancer. Joann needed to go to town. My daughter drove, and Schootzi lay in my lap-trying to wag his tail.

He was in so much pain that he had begun biting his owners and crying while trying to sleep and couldn't hardly walk. The vet staff came out ready to be mauled again. I carried schootzi, and they carried me. I just said-shush, shush-and he relaxed. He actually tried to stand and heel for me, when we first got out of the back seat. It seems that I'm the only person that was never bitten by that dog. I held his head and pet him while they put in the IV-and he tried to wag his tail. Joanne was sad, but it got her more mad that the vet made the mistake of saying how much Schootzi and I loved each other. i lived an an area that believed in witches-and people called me one because how animals related to me. So Joann's husband and vet said that I put a spell on her poor dog. By the way, some punks saw me playing with Schootzi and tried to break in-Nobody tried that again. You fix food for an animal, groom it, cuddle with it for a year-and you get deeply attached. I've cried over some of the most unlikely animals, and they've taken a piece of my heart with them-even when they didn't belong to me. I even sponsor a bat that's in Tennessee.

Sometimes when a person is stressed out-and it is Thanksgiving, where people get stressed-they react differently to something or misread something-I don't think that very many of us in the DC family are pain free in one form or another-we all hurt and take spells of being very sensitive, and meds can make us more emotional and disgusted. Then some people are more sensitive than others. I wasn't insulted by someone expressing their feelings about what I wrote, but I wanted people here to know that do understand the bond people can have with animals. They can read what I wrote anyway they want-but I now need to put an apple and raw chopped beef steak out for a lost road runner. He comes in the evenings. He probably jumped into wood that was in a pickup and was transported here by wood cutters. He likes apples-he was eating my windfalls-it's a bad place for him. Everything poisoned, loose hungry pit bulls, heavy traffic.

I don't see signs of him for a few days-and I worry about him. He's all alone-the mice are poisoned-no lizards here. The city made the people across the street take out their cactus forest that he could run into and sleep. So he's living in my southwestern shrubs and trees-drinks my dogs' water-and eats wild native berries, apples and steak. Yes, I just checked and it was time for more food. It's so sad seeing him check the grass and think he's spotted a lizard's tail- and it's a piece of long grass.

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